Cloud & AI Platform Architect — Tech Visionary

Capital One; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Performance incentives

Professional growth

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead technical direction across cloud platforms, ML systems, and scalable architectures in a fast-moving banking tech environment. You will mentor teams, drive architectural excellence, and influence product and platform decisions while delivering tangible business outcomes.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, multi-project execution, and ongoing knowledge sharing across Capital One Tech, with a competitive pay range and strong incentive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
• 7+ years of general software engineering and solution architecture.
• 3+ years hands-on with LLM systems including RAG/embeddings, prompts, governance.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics such as performance, scalability and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, coaching and strengthening expertise.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud computing

LLM systems

System architecture

Performance optimization

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

ML tooling

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead technical direction across cloud platforms, ML systems, and scalable architectures in a fast-moving banking tech environment. You will mentor teams, drive architectural excellence, and influence product and platform decisions while delivering tangible business outcomes.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, multi-project execution, and ongoing knowledge sharing across Capital One Tech, with a competitive pay range and strong incentive